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DiscountDildos posted:Incredible things are happening in... India?!?! employing reincarnation methods there, this is an incredible strategy
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Nov 16, 2021 16:56
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Truga posted:lol also, i'd like to mention that any reactors built post ~mid 70s or so are likely to keep running for up to like 80 years and maybe even longer. the insane fear people have of anything nuclear means they're over-engineered to absolute gently caress. and that's a really good thing there's a reactor about 100km drive away from where i live, and after an overhaul in 2000, everyone who works there privately says it's good to run until at least 2063 at current outlook, and possibly even past that date. official messaging is still 2043 + a possible 10 year extension, but even that is already a 20 year extension over initial plans, so basically the expected lifetime has doubled from 40 to 70 or 80 years lol
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Nov 16, 2021 17:02
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Atopian posted:It's irritating as hell that every thread about every country is in fact about America. jesus christ i need to stop logging off i come back and people poo poo up the thread with stupid poo poo like this
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Nov 16, 2021 17:04
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Why does every political thread end up talking about the most powerful and influential political force in history? 
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Nov 16, 2021 17:06
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imagine how insanely angry these people are gonna be when every thread is about PRC in 20 years lmao
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Nov 16, 2021 17:13
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My favorite stupid nuclear story: Taiwan built a brand spanking new nuclear reactor (reactor #4), but after the Fukushima disaster, in a populist frenzy, the political elites from both parties pushed for a referendum to never used it. Now DPP is pushing for an energy policy that rely on import natural gas so heavily, it will run out of energy to generate power in 3-4 days if and when a cross strait crisis happen. They also have asked TSMC to "figure out way to generate power with diesel themselves" because there isn't enough power.
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Nov 16, 2021 17:14
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Why does every political thread end up talking about the most powerful and influential political force in history? the immortal science is praised across the entire forum, yes.
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Nov 16, 2021 17:26
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Why does every political thread end up talking about the most powerful and influential political force in history? it’s like mao said, don’t worry about the primary contradiction because you can’t do poo poo about it. instead worry about the contradictions that you can develop. let a thousand antagonisms bloom.
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Nov 16, 2021 17:27
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while I know the anti China propaganda from the US is in overdrive right now, the Chinese officials beating a tiny dog to death over Covid is sad. Maybe because I have a tiny dog and I cant even imagine, but ugh. makes me sick to say but why not just shoot it . . . and to tell the lady you're not do something like that then do it anyways!! this isn't so much "grr China bad" as that particular story is sad. and it looks like Chinese people were just as outraged as the rest of the world about it as well.
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Nov 16, 2021 17:27
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stephenthinkpad posted:My favorite stupid nuclear story: Taiwan built a brand spanking new nuclear reactor (reactor #4), but after the Fukushima disaster, in a populist frenzy, the political elites from both parties pushed for a referendum to never used it. Now DPP is pushing for an energy policy that rely on import natural gas so heavily, it will run out of energy to generate power in 3-4 days if and when a cross strait crisis happen. They also have asked TSMC to "figure out way to generate power with diesel themselves" because there isn't enough power. It just shows how much of the “crisis” is theater, Taiwan couldn’t sustain a serious disruption of trade much less genuine military action. It is simply about delaying integration as apart of a faltering containment strategy.
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Nov 16, 2021 17:34
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Peter Daou Zen posted:while I know the anti China propaganda from the US is in overdrive right now, the Chinese officials beating a tiny dog to death over Covid is sad. Maybe because I have a tiny dog and I cant even imagine, but ugh. lol yeah if only they had a gun
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Nov 16, 2021 17:34
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Someone give me the details on the suspension of Nord stream 2, I see the Guardian article that it's an evil Kremlin geopolitical project and Germany hates it now, so I'm guessing there's something else going on
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Nov 16, 2021 17:39
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thankfully i didn't see the dog snuff film but if you think doing horrific and abusive things to animals is uniquely chinese you are a loving idiot and an unambiguous racist. visit your local shelter, try not to cry too much, then remember those are the lucky (?) ones that are still alive. the usa, along with most of the west, are dystopian hellholes that can't even care for humans, never mind provide sufficient funding and services to take care of dogs, cats, or pretty much every other kind of domestic animal or wildlife despite there being plenty of people ready and willing to do that work. china is still working on being a better place in this regard, but they are actually working on it instead of giving barebones funding to animal shelters that can barely keep stray dogs out of rich neighborhoods. there are young party members taking up the cause and trying to get animal sancuaries and the like running. i think the public backlash to the dog that the quarantine workers killed, and that this outstanding young party member got featured on CGTN, shows that these kinds of efforts are making serious ground and doing right by the creatures that helped our species become what it is today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq2Oaa9qZsI
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Nov 16, 2021 17:50
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KomradeX posted:I think France is forgetting Russia isn't some former colony in Africa it can bully The Russian court used to speak French, they were a cultural satellite a long time ago.
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Nov 16, 2021 17:52
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remember China is 1/6 of the human pop. It's north america and europe and australia and russia combined for population. So when you see some video you gotta ask "would this shock me if this event happened once somewhere in Europe (all of it), Russia, Canada, Mexico, USA or Australia?" edit: actually you can include central american and the caribbean and still be under China's population it's easy to go fishing for extreme events. Antonymous has issued a correction as of 17:59 on Nov 16, 2021 |
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Nov 16, 2021 17:53
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DiscountDildos posted:Speaking of aiweiewei this is also what I believe about the US wrt China but for completely different reasons leading to the opposite conclusion
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Nov 16, 2021 17:55
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mila kunis posted:funny how the dipshits american liberals big up in foreign countries turn out to be reactionary shitheads Tradition goes back to Solzhenitsyn at least. Maybe these socialist countries aren't evil after all and do have good reasons to imprison these people...
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Nov 16, 2021 18:08
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Here's all the countries you could take and put every last man woman and child into China and China still wouldn't double in population. I did not include Taiwan in China's pop. United States, Mexico, Canada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad And Tobago, Bahamas, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Curacao, Grenada, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Aruba, United States Virgin Islands, Antigua And Barbuda, Dominica, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Greenland, Saint Kitts And Nevis, Sint Maarten, Saint Martin, Turks And Caicos Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Pierre And Miquelon, Montserrat Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Belarus, Austria, Switzerland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Slovakia, Ireland, Croatia, Moldova, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Albania, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Latvia, Estonia, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Malta, Iceland, Isle Of Man, Andorra, Faroe Islands, Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Gibraltar, Vatican City Australia Venezuela, Argentina Antonymous has issued a correction as of 18:16 on Nov 16, 2021 |
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Nov 16, 2021 18:12
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hot witch divorcee posted:thankfully i didn't see the dog snuff film but if you think doing horrific and abusive things to animals is uniquely chinese you are a loving idiot and an unambiguous racist. visit your local shelter, try not to cry too much, then remember those are the lucky (?) ones that are still alive. the usa, along with most of the west, are dystopian hellholes that can't even care for humans, never mind provide sufficient funding and services to take care of dogs, cats, or pretty much every other kind of domestic animal or wildlife despite there being plenty of people ready and willing to do that work. umm yeahh im sad about animals being abused, like when british lady put kitty in the trash. i don't think it's uniquely chinese at all.
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Nov 16, 2021 18:13
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honestly more dogs are needlessly shot by cops in USA alone than you need to make the point that pet killing is not a Chinese phenomenon
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Nov 16, 2021 18:18
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Maximo Roboto posted:The Russian court used to speak French, they were a cultural satellite a long time ago. Didn't something happen to the Russian court in the early 1900s? French also used to be lingua franca in Europe.
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Nov 16, 2021 18:21
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hot witch divorcee posted:thankfully i didn't see the dog snuff film but if you think doing horrific and abusive things to animals is uniquely chinese you are a loving idiot and an unambiguous racist. visit your local shelter, try not to cry too much, then remember those are the lucky (?) ones that are still alive. the usa, along with most of the west, are dystopian hellholes that can't even care for humans, never mind provide sufficient funding and services to take care of dogs, cats, or pretty much every other kind of domestic animal or wildlife despite there being plenty of people ready and willing to do that work. also animal abuse is bad but killing animals to save human lives is not a bad thing lmao. that tweet reminds me of the chernobyl episode where they kill the dogs and everyone crying over them while being totally fine watching the fireman dissolve on a molecular level
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Nov 16, 2021 18:29
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Raskolnikov38 posted:also animal abuse is bad but killing animals to save human lives is not a bad thing lmao. that tweet reminds me of the chernobyl episode where they kill the dogs and everyone crying over them while being totally fine watching the fireman dissolve on a molecular level americans only feel bad for fireman on or around 9/11, and if they are sufficiently sexy mostly. fickle people.
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Nov 16, 2021 18:39
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How many dogs have American cops shot lol Hell how many American K9 service dogs were shot dead by cops anyway
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Nov 16, 2021 18:43
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American cops shoot caged dogs for fun.
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Nov 16, 2021 18:48
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With apologies to the gentlegoon who got mad about America talk https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1460297812042788871?s=20
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Nov 16, 2021 18:48
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https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008964 This is an article about how people in China are pissed off after seeing that video https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008838/chinas-tutoring-ban-leaves-a-trail-of-debt%2C-anger%2C-and-broken-dreams Here's an article about how the fallout from the tutoring clampdown is shaking out. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008879/wild%2C-creative%2C-disturbing-inside-chinas-hyperpop-music-scene Here's an article about hyperpop, I'm at work right now so I can't listen but I will probably check some out later just to see, this kind of music is usually not to my taste.
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Nov 16, 2021 18:53
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30 dogs a day  honestly if China took over the USA I don’t see one aspect of our lives that wouldn’t get better
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Nov 16, 2021 18:54
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https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008011/chinas-tight-job-market-yields-highly-educated-cigarette-makers Here's an interesting article about how people with bachelor's degrees are going for work in cigarette factories for the stability and overtime. Although I wonder if this will shake out like the tutoring shutdown since as mentioned in the article the Chinese government is signaling it would like to clamp down on smoking
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Nov 16, 2021 18:57
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Some kind of anti-smoking push would make sense if we're gonna see universal healthcare in china some time in the future.
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Nov 16, 2021 19:04
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any society that depends on high school grades as a literal life changing event like in China really ought to not ban essential services like tutoring, it’s insane theyd even consider banning it.
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Nov 16, 2021 19:08
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what is ai weiwei's "deal"....... like could someone explain him in a few sentences, i've only seen some of his art which is fine
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Nov 16, 2021 19:09
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sleep with the vicious posted:Someone give me the details on the suspension of Nord stream 2, I see the Guardian article that it's an evil Kremlin geopolitical project and Germany hates it now, so I'm guessing there's something else going on Looks like it's just a regulatory matter. Nord Stream 2 AG, the operators of the pipeline, are based in Switzerland and are creating a subsidiary in Germany to run the German part of the pipeline and so fall under German law.
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Nov 16, 2021 19:12
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:what is ai weiwei's "deal"....... like could someone explain him in a few sentences, i've only seen some of his art which is fine he’s an artist who’s done some interesting art but said the wrong things a couple times and the Chinese government decided to punish him unrelentingly in a truly vindictive fashion for decades as a warning to other Chinese artists to not let their international fame and prestige make them think they’ll suddenly have more human rights or be allowed to criticize the glorious party.
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Nov 16, 2021 19:13
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Al-Saqr posted:any society that depends on high school grades as a literal life changing event like in China really ought to not ban essential services like tutoring, it’s insane theyd even consider banning it. 
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Nov 16, 2021 19:13
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Benagain posted:https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008011/chinas-tight-job-market-yields-highly-educated-cigarette-makers I post in this thread before, China's military expenditure in 2019? 2018? was exactly the same as the Chinese state owned tobacco industry's tax revenue. China's laws against e-cig is also very hush (as though nowhere as hush the new US e-cig policy) for the reason of protecting the tax revenue.
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Nov 16, 2021 19:16
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Al-Saqr posted:any society that depends on high school grades as a literal life changing event like in China really ought to not ban essential services like tutoring, it’s insane theyd even consider banning it. are you really this loving stupid goddamn
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Nov 16, 2021 19:17
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stephenthinkpad posted:I post in this thread before, China's military expenditure in 2019? 2018? was exactly the same as the Chinese state owned tobacco industry's tax revenue. huh, despite talk of their nuclear build up this is clearly a signal that they're planning on dismantling the entirety of their armed forces once cigarettes are illegal
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Nov 16, 2021 19:18
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sleep with the vicious posted:Someone give me the details on the suspension of Nord stream 2, I see the Guardian article that it's an evil Kremlin geopolitical project and Germany hates it now, so I'm guessing there's something else going on It is a temporary suspension until Gazprom creates a separate subsidiary in Germany, Gazprom said they will comply.
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Nov 16, 2021 19:19
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mila kunis posted:are you really this loving stupid goddamn I’m sorry what’s wrong with tutoring kids outside of school especially in countries where your grades will define your life it’s normal to do this
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Nov 16, 2021 19:20
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